Policy as Code with AWS Config
Use AWS Config for AWS resource inventory, configuration history, and configuration change notifications to enable security and governance. Config Rules enable you to create rules that automatically check the configuration of AWS resources recorded by AWS Config. AWS Config can be used for Continuous monitoring, Continuous Assessment, Change Management, Operational Troubleshooting, Enterprise-wide compliance monitoring, and Support for third-party resources. IT teams can automate these tasks using AWS Config, reducing the manual effort to assess, audit and evaluate the configuration of AWS resources.
In this section, you learned about applying best practices for cloud automation. However, automation cannot work fully with monitoring and sending an alert for automation to work as designed. Let's learn about best practices for cloud monitoring and alerting.